Friday, September 25, 2009

Just a quick post to say that The Book Academy conference was truly amazing yesterday. Over 300 attendees and very well organized. My favorite part was Brandon Sanderson's keynote address. I had a lot of fun serving on a panel and teaching a class, too. Kudos to the folks at UVU!

Also, THE MAZE RUNNER had a great article about it in Publisher's Weekly yesterday. To read it, CLICK HERE. My sincere thanks to Shannon O'Connor at Doylestown Bookshop in Pennsylvania.

If you missed the new cover for The 13th Reality paperback, CLICK HERE.

Eleven days to Oct. 6. Eleven days. Can't wait for single digits!

Lyrics of the Day:

I know someday you'll have a beautiful lifeI know you'll be a sunIn somebody else's skyBut whyWhyWhy can't it beWhy can't it be mine?

This has nothing to do with this particular post, exactly, but I just realized something...

Sept. 28, when you're going to do that Random Buzzers chat event thingy? I only recently remembered that it's going to be the holiday Yom Kippur on that day, and I'm jewish!

If you don't know anything about this holiday, it's supposed to be a day of atonement, when Jews fast the entire day and apologize for any wrongs we've done to others, as well as forgive those who have wronged us. Very serious holiday. ~,~

We have to feel quite guilty and torture ourselves by not doing things we normally do. I'm not sure about all the rules, but one of the rules in my house is that you're not allowed to use any electricity. No T.V., no lights on, and NO INTERNET! For the whole day!

So now you see, I won't be able to go on the computer and go to the site to join you and everyone! ~,~ I'm pretty sure I'm not the only jewish Blogger here, so this might be a big problem!

Is it possible that this chat thing can go on for more than one day? Because I do NOT want to miss such a fun event! It would torture me if I did! (Of course, I'm supposed to feel tortured, but come on!)

I officially give up. I've been trying to win myself a copy of Maze Runner, and have not succeeded. I have only ever won something once in my life, and it was not a blog contest. For whatever reason, it's hopeless. So I ordered a copy of my own because I don't want to have to wait any longer than necessary or lose any more contests before I read it.

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